wordpress
/wˈɝdpɹɪs/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.57 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A content management system used to create websites of all kinds, especially blogs.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "In mid-1999 the first free build-your-own-web log tools began appearing and suddenly there were a large variety of easy to use blogging software to choose from including remote web log systems like Blogger a turnkey service offered by Google or stand-alone open source applications such as WordPress."
- "With the free Scripts Installer included in the Unlimited Hosting plan, customers can easily install a wide range of open source applications such as Wordpress,^([sic]) Joomla!, Drupal, PhpBB,^([sic]) Mambo, Php-Nuke,^([sic]) Zen Cart, Magento, just to name a few."
- "With the new version of Virtuozzo’s Application Platform for WordPress, any service provider can offer cost-effective, enterprise-grade WordPress hosting with automatic deployment and scaling of WordPress websites, databases, CDN, security and associated software stacks, that can be controlled easily by the business user."
- "Wikipedia contributors are often prolific bloggers, wont to talk about their work on Wikipedia in LiveJournals and TypePads and WordPresses."
- "According to Automattic, as of 2011, over 100,000 new WordPresses are created every day (http://en.wordpress.com/stats/)."
- "Remember blogs? They were about before Tumblr turned up and turfed all but the most dedicated off their Wordpresses,^([sic]) and were more likely to be thematically concerned with Sarah Records or late 80s German centre backs than otherkins and sitcom reaction .gifs."
Etymology
From word + press. Coined by Christine Tremoulet, a friend of the co-founder Matt Mullenweg, who recalled the details in her podcast: He pointed out that he really liked the idea of it being somehow related to the printing press, because the printing press, so many years ago, revolutionized the power of the people because books became accessible, they were no longer so expensive and he truly believed in the power of blogging and this blogging software that he was working on… and really, out of nowhere, it suddenly hit me. I was like, WordPress!